Cavaliers looking to stop skid and get their first win over Pacers

The Cleveland Cavaliers will finish a stretch of playing nine of their last 12 games on the road Friday against the Indiana Pacers. The Cavaliers are fresh off their two worst losses of the season by a combined 61 points. They’ve also yet to defeat the Pacers this season as they head into the third meeting between the two teams.

The Cavaliers will be without Isaiah Thomas as he continues to have a restriction on back-to-backs. Not that it made much of a difference last night against a short-handed Raptors crew that steamrolled the Cavs by 34 points.

Cleveland will get no reinforcements on the trip either. Derrick Rose is still not ready to return and Iman Shumpert suffered a setback in his recovery that will keep him out even longer.

Once again, just like Thursday, it will be on the players who have gotten the Cavaliers in this tough spot to be the ones who get them out of it. Cleveland has had midseason lulls before. And Tyronn Lue vaguely called out players with “an agenda” following the loss in Toronto.

This Cavs team, and LeBron’s teams in general since the Heat days, have always found a way to get their backs against the wall but eventually find a way out.

Indiana has been a tough matchup for the Cavs this season and much like the early season, anybody is a tough matchup for the Cavs right now. We’ll see if they finally hold up their end of the bargain before the defending champs come to The Q on Monday.

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